THe AppMan

The tag of Senior Citizen entitles one for very many benefits as diverse as they come. You get to be called “Pa” by even married couples and “Grandpa” by toddlers to college students. The unexpected bonanza could be sometimes getting a seat in a crowded bus. The flop side too reveals it once in a while – a speeding motorist calling out, hey “Pa” can you not see where you are going? ; A school kid racing by on his bicycle yelling, “grandpa” can’t you move and give way? . These calls apart, as App man there are plenty of requests and users to keep the old spirit going.

KidApp:
The imaginative child, yet-to-master verbal articulation, goes on inventing gestures and grunts making the parents and grandparents to scramble and decode the contents. Exasperation and splitting of hairs are not allowed by this child and at the very hint of such thoughts occurring in the minds, a fresh avalanche, of gestures & grunts, is triggered to smother the grownups ear-deep. The bond between a toddler and a grandparent defies all known laws of chemistry and physics. The motive force that is driving this dynamo of affection is trust and it needs only the willingness of an adult. Then on, the adult’s free will is indeed held captive by the kid’s magnetic field of smile and affection and undergoes bending at the kid’s will.

 
SittingApp:
Baby sitting involves a lot other than sparing time – patience, perseverance and attention. The patience required is best understood by watching a large tub getting filled, from a tap letting out a thin stream of water. It is rather slow. The need for the water makes one to persist with this slow process. The interminable wait is usually spent by indulging in reminiscence and reveries. At the right moment, if the wandering mind is not brought back to the almost filled tub, the excess water overflows. The adult will have to learn to show patience, perseverance and attention. The child reciprocates by enjoying the attention, appreciating the perseverance and admiring the patience shown. The work done on the emotional plane leads to the state where nothing but selfless affection finds expression. 

MindApp:
The mind is a repository as well as a generator of emotions. The other parts of the body are merely the end effectors. They simply obey it - like puppets on strings.  When the mind picks up speed, these parts get confused, unable to cope up with the rapid reactions that are to be exhibited; then they go crazy. Relationship is like a viscous fluid; resists flowing out easily. The reluctance vanishes once the hearts warm up to each other. 

OzApp:
On the mental plane, feeling of hope or despair, happy or sad, hate or love, achievement or debacle, miracle or disaster plays upon the nervous system as feeling or emotion. Emotion has a physical dimension. The secondary effect felt by the limbs of the body is the physical dimension of feeling. The moment an emotion grows in volume or intensity, it acquires mass and is subjected to the pull of gravity. In the end, the weight of emotion dictates rest or inactivity to the body in order to lessen the burden of emotion.

This weight is particularly heavy in the case of negative emotions. A created happiness fades with time whereas an imparted sadness grows with time in the mind of the receptor.  The growing feeling of guilt makes the initiator too to suffer. Both feel the weight of their respective emotions. 

HangApp:
Sometimes a family conversation becomes ‘shared’ when the phone is on the speaker mode, making it an inclusive and interactive affair. At times, the speaker is not on this mode rendering the one to one deliberation privy - by design or oversight. The passive persons, left out of the briefing, have to make up the whole exchange from bits and pieces picked up from the one sided talk. Some days even this jugglery might be daunting as grunts, hmmms, ha-has, true.. trues etc  from this end does not tell the story of the other end. The towers do not listen to all we talk and pass it on. Remembering this might help. Yet, nothing will be lost and the full picture will emerge – directly in ‘passive voice’ or indirectly when the same is repeated to relatives and friends. 

ShutApp:
Call it the 6th or 7th sense or simply a non-sense, but the fact is some can manage things pretty well while others get vexed. The actions of such managers defy logic at that time but after a while prove to be rewarding. Those who could not understand the techniques are the pleading smart phone category: “unable to back up” and “updates are pending”. 

Tailpiece:
These Sr. Citizen’s Apps are not written in mystic codes. Even the powerful computers cannot handle delicate emotions whereas a sensible person can do it with a personal touch. No human system breaks down because of these Apps being used or not. It is UNIQUE like UNIX or Linux open source software. Installation is free and no virus exists to corrupt. Some more..? just demand, it will be delivered!